Yeah i understand. 800 is way cheap even 1k.

I heard gear is one of the best bang for the bucks for the S2000. I heard if you have gear 4.57 you can keep up with SC-S for the first three gears.

 

Riley, just PM me with a link to a pic. Nobody will ban you for that.

I know a whole bunch of people with a lot of money who might be interested.

 

It takes a fair amount of money to get a lot of n/a power from the S2000.

HOWEVER, to say honda got all the power they could isn't really correct. The car firstly, needs an aftermarket ECU. The stock ECU is the largest and first roadblock to power. Get something like an AEM EMS or other standalone, and you'll definitely be able to get some power.

Mugen had an allmotor 2.2 liter S2k making over 300whp. ALL motor.

You should also know, that our own ultimate lurker believes the S2000 engine to have the most N/A potential for horsepower of any honda engine.

So, some may say, bolt ons aren't worth it, and you won't gain anything. Those who are experts on the matter completely disagree. If you're willing to sink several thousand into the car, you'll get some great power and some great gains. Granted several thousand will get you MORE power with FI, however, if you don't want to go FI, excellent gains can still be had.

 

I'm sure this is all true. I think what impresses me the most with Honda engines, and particularly the S2000's engine, is just "how" much power Honda gets from it without sacrificing reliability and emissions. The fact that owners are having to invest "thousands" of dollars to make any meaningful gains (without FI) says a lot!

On the FI side of things, it's also impressive to me that most seem to still have near stock reliability after installing a supercharger and without, from what I've been able to tell, doing any significant mods to the block, crank, rods and heads. With that kind of over-engineering, I won't be worried in the least about redlining my car when it's got 150k miles on it!

Drive Safe,
Steve R.

 

hehe. the one guy dyno'd his S2k at 26psi on an otherwise completely stock engine. (except head gasket to drop compression). 521whp. he could break the tires loose in 4th no problem.

 

my first mod will be a driving class.

 

Exactly... and my response was aimed at the initial poster's aim which seemed to be more on a general level. Of course you can get more power out of an na S2000 with professional racecar level engine preparation and thousands of dollars. I just didn't think this was where this post was going.

 

Only way to find out is to test it out yourself. If you dont' like it, sell it to someone else or list it on fleabay.

 

You will def. regret if you start modifying it before autoX and track runs.
Read "Secret to Solo Racing" by Henry Watts. good book..

 

Everyone is mentioning great points but remember the following.

- S2000 is not your average car
- Highly recomend you to drive one for a year BEFORE moding
- UNLESS you want a better track car the stock set up is great
- Not tunning is equal, it will cost you more for R&D that the part itself for proper tunning.

I mostly rode motorcyles before the s2000. Even though I own multiple motorcycles and cars, I always prefered motorcycles. Until I bough an S2000, I didn't know much about it but my wife liked it so I got it. Now I am constanly debating between riding and driving

Save for the car, payoff as much as you can, go to some performance driving school and track days (they are not the same)

So far the only upgrades I did on my car have been for bragging rights (to make it different to other s2000s).

But I was VERY concious that I could be driving a M or a Boxter for a bit more money (35K car, 1,700 exhaust and 8K comptech upgrade) after all the S2000 still a honda :\